Principal Engineer - Target India
Target · Tower 02, Manyata Embassy Business Park, Racenahali & Nagawara Villages. Outer Ring Rd, Bangalore 540065
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Target is hiring a Principal Engineer - Target India in Tower 02.
Responsibilities
Enterprise Technology Leadership
- Define long-term architecture and modernization strategy for Finance Technology platforms across multiple domains and portfolios
- Lead enterprise-wide transformation initiatives including mainframe modernization, intelligent finance workflows, cloud migration, and platform consolidation
- Drive architecture governance, engineering standards, resiliency strategies, and modernization roadmaps
- Establish reusable enterprise patterns for scalability, observability, reliability, and security
Intelligent Finance & AI Enablement
- Drive adoption of AI/ML and Agentic AI capabilities across finance operations including matching, reconciliation, exception management, dispute handling, forecasting, and financial insights
- Lead POCs and productionization of LLM-enabled and Agentic systems with measurable operational and productivity outcomes
- Partner with product and business teams to identify high-value finance workflows for intelligent automation
Architecture & Platform Engineering
- Architect cloud-native, event-driven, and microservices-based systems supporting high-scale financial operations
- Design resilient distributed systems leveraging Kafka, asynchronous processing, API-first integrations, and modern data architectures
- Guide engineering teams in implementing scalable backend platforms, integration frameworks, and enterprise APIs
- Drive engineering excellence across performance optimization, observability, operational resiliency, security, and cost efficiency
Strategic Influence & Partnership
- Partner closely with Finance business leaders, Product Management, UX, Architecture, Data Science, and Engineering teams to align technology strategy with business outcomes
Preferred qualifications
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in principal/staff architecture or enterprise technical leadership roles
- Experience leading enterprise modernization initiatives involving legacy decomposition and cloud transformation
- Experience building or scaling AI-enabled enterprise operational platforms
- Experience driving technical strategy in large retail, finance, or enterprise ecosystems
- Contributions to architecture communities, engi
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